Facebook often does things with personal data that irks people. Usually, they’re sharing it in ways that make people uncomfortable. But this week Facebook decided to hide data that some of us wanted to be front and center for the use of friends - our email address.

Now that you’ve got this handy dandy email address that you don’t want to use showing in Facebook, just how do you get your handy dandy, totally useful email address that you actually check to show up again?

How to hide your facebook.com email address (and restore your own)

1) On your Timeline and click on the About section under your avatar.

2) Scroll down to the Contact Info and Edit.

3) Use the drop-down menu next to the @facebook.com email address to change it to “Hidden From Timeline”.

4) For the email(s) you want to show on your timeline, use the drop-down menu to highlight “Shown On Timeline”.

Once that’s done, you should be good to go.

Why did Facebook do this? There is no end to the speculation, but it’s surely not the last we’re going to hear about this. They wouldn’t drop this after such a bold move.

Is Facebook up to evil, sneaky tricks? Not necessarily, but they are making changes that we need to be aware of all the time.

Do you have bigger concerns about the email switch this week?

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